Luke 21:16

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

You will be betrayed even by parents, brothers, relatives, and friends, and they will have some of you put to death.

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  • Luke 12:53 : 53 They will be divided, father against son and son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against mother, mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law.”
  • Rev 6:9 : 9 Now when the Lamb opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been violently killed because of the word of God and because of the testimony they had given.
  • Rev 12:11 : 11 But they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives so much that they were afraid to die.
  • Acts 7:59 : 59 They continued to stone Stephen while he prayed,“Lord Jesus, receive my spirit!”
  • Acts 12:2 : 2 He had James, the brother of John, executed with a sword.
  • Acts 26:10-11 : 10 And that is what I did in Jerusalem: Not only did I lock up many of the saints in prisons by the authority I received from the chief priests, but I also cast my vote against them when they were sentenced to death. 11 I punished them often in all the synagogues and tried to force them to blaspheme. Because I was so furiously enraged at them, I went to persecute them even in foreign cities.
  • Rev 2:13 : 13 ‘I know where you live– where Satan’s throne is. Yet you continue to cling to my name and you have not denied your faith in me, even in the days of Antipas, my faithful witness, who was killed in your city where Satan lives.
  • Jer 9:4 : 4 Everyone must be on his guard around his friends. He must not even trust any of his relatives. For every one of them will find some way to cheat him. And all of his friends will tell lies about him.
  • Jer 12:6 : 6 As a matter of fact, even your own brothers and the members of your own family have betrayed you too. Even they have plotted to do away with you. So do not trust them even when they say kind things to you.
  • Mic 7:5-6 : 5 Do not rely on a friend; do not trust a companion! Even with the one who lies in your arms, do not share secrets! 6 For a son thinks his father is a fool, a daughter challenges her mother, and a daughter-in-law her mother-in-law; a man’s enemies are his own family.
  • Matt 10:21 : 21 “Brother will hand over brother to death, and a father his child. Children will rise against parents and have them put to death.
  • Mark 13:12 : 12 Brother will hand over brother to death, and a father his child. Children will rise against parents and have them put to death.

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  • Mark 13:11-13
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    11When they arrest you and hand you over for trial, do not worry about what to speak. But say whatever is given you at that time, for it is not you speaking, but the Holy Spirit.

    12Brother will hand over brother to death, and a father his child. Children will rise against parents and have them put to death.

    13You will be hated by everyone because of my name. But the one who endures to the end will be saved.

  • Matt 10:17-23
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    17Beware of people, because they will hand you over to councils and flog you in their synagogues.

    18And you will be brought before governors and kings because of me, as a witness to them and to the Gentiles.

    19Whenever they hand you over for trial, do not worry about how to speak or what to say, for what you should say will be given to you at that time.

    20For it is not you speaking, but the Spirit of your Father speaking through you.

    21“Brother will hand over brother to death, and a father his child. Children will rise against parents and have them put to death.

    22And you will be hated by everyone because of my name. But the one who endures to the end will be saved!

    23Whenever they persecute you in one town, flee to another! I tell you the truth, you will not finish going through all the towns of Israel before the Son of Man comes.

  • Luke 21:17
    84%

    17You will be hated by everyone because of my name.

  • Matt 24:9-10
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    9Persecution of Disciples“Then they will hand you over to be persecuted and will kill you. You will be hated by all the nations because of my name.

    10Then many will be led into sin, and they will betray one another and hate one another.

  • Mark 13:9
    77%

    9Persecution of Disciples“You must watch out for yourselves. You will be handed over to councils and beaten in the synagogues. You will stand before governors and kings because of me, as a witness to them.

  • Luke 21:12-13
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    12But before all this, they will seize you and persecute you, handing you over to the synagogues and prisons. You will be brought before kings and governors because of my name.

    13This will be a time for you to serve as witnesses.

  • Matt 17:22
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    22Second Prediction of Jesus’ Death and Resurrection When they gathered together in Galilee, Jesus told them,“The Son of Man is going to be betrayed into the hands of men.

  • Matt 10:35-36
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    35For I have come to set a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law,

    36and a man’s enemies will be the members of his household.

  • John 16:1-3
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    1“I have told you all these things so that you will not fall away.

    2They will put you out of the synagogue, yet a time is coming when the one who kills you will think he is offering service to God.

    3They will do these things because they have not known the Father or me.

  • John 13:21
    75%

    21When he had said these things, Jesus was greatly distressed in spirit, and testified,“I tell you the solemn truth, one of you will betray me.”

  • Luke 21:15
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    15For I will give you the words along with the wisdom that none of your adversaries will be able to withstand or contradict.

  • Matt 20:18
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    18“Look, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be handed over to the chief priests and the experts in the law. They will condemn him to death,

  • Mark 14:27
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    27The Prediction of Peter’s Denial Then Jesus said to them,“You will all fall away, for it is written,‘I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered.’

  • Matt 26:21
    72%

    21And while they were eating he said,“I tell you the truth, one of you will betray me.”

  • Luke 6:22
    72%

    22“Blessed are you when people hate you, and when they exclude you and insult you and reject you as evil on account of the Son of Man!

  • Ezek 16:40
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    40They will summon a mob who will stone you and hack you in pieces with their swords.

  • Matt 26:31
    71%

    31The Prediction of Peter’s Denial Then Jesus said to them,“This night you will all fall away because of me, for it is written:‘I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.’

  • John 16:32
    71%

    32Look, a time is coming– and has come– when you will be scattered, each one to his own home, and I will be left alone. Yet I am not alone, because my Father is with me.

  • Matt 23:34
    71%

    34“For this reason I am sending you prophets and wise men and experts in the law, some of whom you will kill and crucify, and some you will flog in your synagogues and pursue from town to town,

  • Luke 22:21-22
    2 verses
    71%

    21A Final Discourse“But look, the hand of the one who betrays me is with me on the table.

    22For the Son of Man is to go just as it has been determined, but woe to that man by whom he is betrayed!”

  • Mark 14:21
    71%

    21For the Son of Man will go as it is written about him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would be better for him if he had never been born.”

  • Luke 12:53
    71%

    53They will be divided, father against son and son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against mother, mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law.”

  • Luke 21:10
    71%

    10Persecution of Disciples Then he said to them,“Nation will rise up in arms against nation, and kingdom against kingdom.

  • John 15:20-21
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    70%

    20Remember what I told you,‘A slave is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they obeyed my word, they will obey yours too.

    21But they will do all these things to you on account of my name, because they do not know the one who sent me.

  • Luke 14:25-26
    2 verses
    70%

    25Counting the Cost Now large crowds were accompanying Jesus, and turning to them he said,

    26“If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother, and wife and children, and brothers and sisters, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple.

  • Acts 7:52
    70%

    52Which of the prophets did your ancestors not persecute? They killed those who foretold long ago the coming of the Righteous One, whose betrayers and murderers you have now become!

  • Lev 26:38
    70%

    38You will perish among the nations; the land of your enemies will consume you.

  • Jer 12:6
    70%

    6As a matter of fact, even your own brothers and the members of your own family have betrayed you too. Even they have plotted to do away with you. So do not trust them even when they say kind things to you.

  • Luke 19:43
    70%

    43For the days will come upon you when your enemies will build an embankment against you and surround you and close in on you from every side.

  • Luke 12:4
    70%

    4“I tell you, my friends, do not be afraid of those who kill the body, and after that have nothing more they can do.

  • Matt 23:31
    69%

    31By saying this you testify against yourselves that you are descendants of those who murdered the prophets.

  • Lev 26:17
    69%

    17I will set my face against you. You will be struck down before your enemies, those who hate you will rule over you, and you will flee when there is no one pursuing you.

  • Mark 10:33
    69%

    33“Look, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be handed over to the chief priests and experts in the law. They will condemn him to death and will turn him over to the Gentiles.

  • John 6:64
    69%

    64But there are some of you who do not believe.”(For Jesus had already known from the beginning who those were who did not believe, and who it was who would betray him.)